Lars Bak is a virtual machine master. He and team have created a Javascript VM, V8, that takes Javascript syntax and produces optimized machine code directly. The result is very performant execution of Javascript. How does V8 work, exactly? What are the
basic design decisions that have gone into…

Microsoft Research was in the news not too long ago regarding the innovative, outside-the-box research being done by MSR scientists on display at the annual MSR TechFest event. One of the stars of the show was a new web browser project named Gazelle.
Gazelle is a Microsoft Research prototype web…

Here is a video that explains how the internet works in very easy terms and also the Microsoft BesserWeb initiative. http://www.msdn-online.de/besserwebMore about the video...We explain how the internet works, what a browser is and what you should be aware of when using it, why the display of…

Allen Wirfs-Brock is a Research Fellow at Mozilla working on the next version of JavaScript (EcmaScript, to be precise), codenamed "Harmony." Allen is the chief editor of the EcmaScript specification. He's also legendary for his work on SmallTalk. It's always fun to chat with Allen. His…